Correspondence from various sources, unsorted.

Correspondence from various sources, principally relating to local and financial matters.

Includes references to:

Thomas Hill [Harwood]:

Bills for father Thomas Harwood 32

Invites Anne Hill [Vernon] to Tern 38

Meeting with Lord Powis 53

To attend at the Commons 54

Godfather to Baldwyn Leighton's daughter 72

use of his house by Richard Powys 92

Financial arrangements with Richard Powys 90, 93, 94, 96, 98-100

Patronage of Thomas Hill in support of:

Asterly and Pearson families 27

Boothby's son 52

Roger Mainwaring 55

Mr Hatton 56

Mr Fisher as sheriff [1761] 58

Mr Edwards 74

Mrs/Miss Bowley 77

Abraham Harris 79

Thomas Harwood:

Bills from Thomas Hill 32

Illness 45

Funeral account receipt 71

Rev. Harwood's request for a Chester living [1733]: 64

Computation of Richard Powys' personal estate: 20

Andrew Hill's gift from J. Stammers: 25

Illness/deaths:

Lady Astley 55

Hill's uncle [?Richard Hill] 59

'Aunt Harwood' 73

'Mr Noel' 83

'Lady Mary' [?Powys] 93, 99

'Lady Fanny' 98

Bennet Langton 107-108

Colds at Hawkstone 122

Marriages:

Lord Foley to Lady Lennox 92

Births:

Christening of Baldwyn Leighton's daughter 72

Mr Jukes's rumours about Thursby being in debt: 15, [17, 18]

Request for assistance for Elizabeth Butler: 31

Mr Coxe given notice to quit Shenston living: 42

Dispute between Mr Browne and Mr Egerton: 42

Mr Wood to replace 'cozen Hughes': 44

Lord Wentworth's money affair [no details]: 50

Letitia Barnston's legacy to the Smythe family: 80, [88]

Mr Pigot's misfortune [no details]: 90

Melancholy accident in Mr Ward's family [no details]: 122

Sales/purchases of estates:

Estates of Corbet Kynaston [1748] 33

Cock's Farm at Chilton [Atcham] 35

Grant's estates 49, [63], 75

Chilton estate [1774] 51

Tithes and property in Abbey Foregate 51

Lands in Condover 80

Loans/mortgages:

Reade's mortgage deeds 48

Manors of Easthope, Sutton Maddock and Wrockwardine 51

Mr Corbet's mortgage 51

Late Mr Tryon's estate in Frognal 60

Grant's mortgage 63, 75

Bennet Langton's loan 67, 101-109

Henry Carter's loan 78

Mr Williams' loan 89

John Powys' loan 91, 117

Lord Grayes' mortgage 110

General election of 1774: [112]

Infectious diseases:

Smallpox 98

Assaults and robberies:

R[ichard] Powys robbed by highwaymen 26

Trade petition from Liverpool merchants [1765]: 1

Mr Vernon's proposal to 'breed up' seamen

[nd]: 13

Petition for erecting a new bridge near Redstone: 19

Details of Sothe by's book auction [1843]: 21

Parliamentary Bill relating to River Stour navigation [nd]: 22

Map of Hudson Bay and straights [straits]: 23

Parliamentary Bill relating to a dog tax [1755]: 24

Cure for lixivium: 40

Mr Fox to manage Government affairs in the Commons: 54

Lord Pulteney's difference with the colonel: 55

Possible change of ministry in the 'Queen's war'

[nd]: 69

'C''s doubts about the war [nd]: 78

Congress broken up without settling anything: 83

Individuals proposed for various Government positions [1767]: 83

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